Online Occupational Therapy | Anticancer Tobacco | ULM Forum 7-15-11

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Online Occupational Therapy Program in Development

Occupational Therapists help people -- from children, to the elderly, to those recovering from an injury or living with a disability. Northeast Louisiana will

Calk

soon have a new supply of Occupational Therapists thank to a new program being developed at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

After closing its four-year program in 2006, ULM is now developing an online program that will allow occupational therapy assistants – normally an two year degree -- achieve a master’s level degree in just over two years. Director of the Occupational Therapy program Dr. Patti Calk says the program will be one of only 18 in the nation designed for OTA's to advance to the Master's of Occupational Therapy level.

Anticancer Properties of Tobacco Leaves?

Thanks to all sorts of public awareness campaigns, most everyone knows that tobacco is bad for you. Now, though, a group of researchers at ULM is focusing on the discovery that tobacco plants may actually help fight cancer.


Pani	El Sayed

Dr. Khalid El Sayed and his colleagues at ULM have been awarded a patent for their discovery of anticancer compounds in the waxy coating found on fresh tobacco leaves. Dr. El Sayed says it's important to continue looking at the natural world for soluctions to diseases.

Associate Provost for Academic Affairs Dr. Eric Pani examines what the patent means for the university. He says the patent can spur additional research dollars for the important work going on in the College of Pharmacy.

Air Date: Fri, 07/15/2011